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First SCID gene chip to be introduced at Academy meeting on immunodeficiencies

The first gene chip ever to be developed for detecting SCID (primary immunodeficiency) in newborns will be presented to researchers for the first time at the New York Academy of Sciences' and Jeffrey Modell Foundation's one-day conference, Primary Immunodeficiencies: Past, Present, Future. The meeting will take place on April 25 at Rockefeller University, Caspary Auditorium, 1230 York Avenue, NY...

Antarctic Treaty Meeting moves to protect frozen continent from non-native species

Important new measures to protect Antarctica ?the world's last great wilderness ?from invasive non-native species have been agreed at a meeting of Antarctic experts in Edinburgh. Scientists and policy makers at the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting, which finished at Edinburgh International Conference Centre on Friday 23 June, agreed new measures that will reduce the risk of non-native...

New technology enables faster, more efficient cell harvest: Cell therapy meeting study

A new, transformative filtration-based technology for the isolation and enrichment of cells, a critical first step in the development of therapies to repair or replace diseased or damaged tissues and organs, was found to be more efficient and faster than traditional technology used for cell separation. These findings were presented today at the International Society for Cellular Therapy (I...

Latest advances in DNA sequencing highlighted at DOE Joint Genome Institute User Meeting

Four hundred researchers tapping the massive flow of DNA sequence information will gather March 28-30 to share their recent developments at the 2nd Annual U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI) User Meeting. DOE JGI is the world's only user facility dedicated to making high-throughput DNA sequencing available to a diverse research community and individual investigators who oth...

Meeting the ethanol challenge: Scientists use supercomputer to target cellulose bottleneck

Termites and fungi already know how to digest cellulose, but the human process of producing ethanol from cellulose remains slow and expensive. The central bottleneck is the sluggish rate at which the cellulose enzyme complex breaks down tightly bound cellulose into sugars, which are then fermented into ethanol. To help unlock the cellulose bottleneck, a team of scientists has conducted mol...
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AG accuses BioCATT of violating meetings law

, have come under legal scrutiny for alleged violations of the state open meetings law in a...

VC trends, company progress discussed at Mason Wells portfolio meeting

Limited partners, portfolio company executives, and guests of met in Milwaukee to hear a speech from Mark Hessen,...

Beware the Dreaded Off-Site Technology Meeting

CHICAGO Caesar's oracle told him to beware the Ides of March. While many of us worry more about the Ides of April, here in the Midwest technology scene, a far more common fear is the creepy-crawly feeling we get when we get that breathless invitation to the dreaded off-site technology meeting. Over the last couple years, off-site activity has slowed to a crawl. The boisterous, lavish a...
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Scotland lags far behind in meeting the demand of prostate cancer treatment

Half of Scotland's prostate cancer patients face a delay of two months or more for surgery or therapy//. Prostrate cancer is one of the most common cancers in Scotland. Bu the health officials said that the hospitals are struggling to hit their target. Andy Kerr, health minister, asked the authorities to reduce the waiting times to make it easier for those who have been di...

Medical Colleges, Confident of Meeting Standards Before 90-days deadline

The state governed medical colleges have not much to improve their standards, as stipulated by the Medical Council of India (MCI) //, which has given them a three month deadline to comply with the norms or face a risk of de-affiliation. MCI is the authorized body that has the power to accord affiliation to medical colleges across the country, has issued a 90-day deadline for the three...

Meeting To Discuss Issue Of Personal Health Records

The Harvard Medical School (HMS) Center for Biomedical Informatics is hosting a meeting that is to discuss the privacy, business, societal, and technical issues surrounding personal health records. The first meeting on Personally Controlled Health Records Infrastructure (PCHRI 2006) will be held on October 10-11. // "The work done at this meeting will further the development of the ri...

Virtual Meeting Place Unites Patients with Brain Tumors and Neurosurgical Disorders

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center’s Department of Neurosurgery has launched an Internet site that provides a virtual support system for patients and their family members// anywhere in the world dealing with brain tumors or other conditions of the brain or spinal cord that may require surgical intervention. There is no charge to access the message center, which will provide links to the late...

Meeting to tackle Chikungunya

A meeting of the Health Ministers of chikungunya-affected States will be oganised by the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry in the capital today//. The agenda is to come out with a plan to combat the disease that has affected more than 1.3 million people in India. Chikungunya has taken several lives, predominantly in Kerala. The Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss will ch...

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Inspiration Biopharmaceuticals Presents Data From Hemophilia Program at International Society On Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH) Annual Meeting

GENEVA, July 11, 2007 /PRNewswire/ -- InspirationBiopharmaceuticals today announced the presentation of preclinicaldata supporting the development of new, proprietary forms ofrecombinant Factor IX to treat patients with Hemophilia B. The datawere highlighted in an oral presentation and a poster session atthe XXIst Congress of the International Society on Thrombosis andHaemostasis (ISTH)...

Halozyme Therapeutics' Enhanze Technology Large Protein Molecule Therapeutic Clinical Trial Results Presented at the 34th Annual Meeting of the Controlled Release Society

- Co-Injection of rHuPH20 with Humira Estimated to Increase theMaximal Steady State Subcutaneous Bioavailability from 64% to 100%- SAN DIEGO, July 09, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- HalozymeTherapeutics, Inc. , a biopharmaceutical company developing andcommercializing recombinant human enzymes, today announced thatfinal results of the Enhanze(TM) Technology clinical trialdemonstrating im...

Generex Biotechnology to Make Presentations At 46th Annual Meeting of the European Society of Pediatric Endocrinology

WORCESTER, Mass., Jun 27, 2007 (PrimeNewswire via COMTEX NewsNetwork) -- Generex Biotechnology Corporation (Nasdaq:GNBT), theleader in drug delivery for metabolic diseases through the innerlining of the mouth, announced today that it will be making threeposter presentations at the 46th Annual Meeting of the EuropeanSociety of Pediatric Endocrinology in Helsinki, Finland June 27 --30, 200...

Clinical Data From Nymox BPH Drug To Be Presented at American Urological Association Meeting

HASBROUCK HEIGHTS, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 3, 2007 - NymoxPharmaceutical Corporation (NASDAQ: NYMX) today announced thatfurther clinical results from the Company's studies of NX-1207 forbenign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) will be presented at the NewEngland Section of the American Urological Association Meeting inBoston in September. The paper is authored by leading clinicalresearch inves...

The International Myeloma Foundation Says Data Reported at a Global Medical Meeting in Greece Demonstrates Improved Survival for a Wide Range of Myeloma Patients

- Data Presented at the 11th International Myeloma Workshop - NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif., and KOS, Greece, June 29, 2007/PRNewswire/ -- The International Myeloma Foundation (IMF) --supporting research and providing education, advocacy and supportfor myeloma patients, families, researchers and physicians -- todaysaid that updated statistics reported at the 11th InternationalMyeloma Workshop i...

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